[mythtv-users] Fwd: Sempron 3100 lag when viewing HD from 6200 STB

Adam Propeck adam at propeck.com
Mon Jan 9 21:55:47 UTC 2006


Ok, so does anyone have an Nvidia card they'd like to trade for an ATI Fire
GL X1 - 128MB? hehe. I can hope.

On 1/9/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > Adam Propeck wrote:
> > > Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm
> > > wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific
> > > firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the
> > > audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need
> > > to do anything specific with the fact that I'm using an Nforce 3
> > > motherboard. Any tweaks that are recommended? Thanks, -Adam
> >
> > I think the problem is that fundamentally, the ATI driver does not
> > provide hardware accelerated MPEG-2 playback and your Sempron cannot
> > handle the software decoding without choking.  If you had an Nvidia card
> > that supported XvMC you could enable that which would activate the
> > hardware decoding and probably give you the performance you expect.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> I'm going to have to agree, unless someone else is running a Sempron 3100
> and
> able to do live HDTV I'm going to have to think this is the case. I know
> my
> Athlon64 3200+ has no room to spare playing live HD, I can easily imagine
> a
> Sempron of lower clock speed having more trouble.
> LiveTV requires a bit more resources from mythbackend and mythfrontend
> from
> what I've noticed.
>
> --
> Steve
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